TUESDAY NIGHT PRAYER
SEPTEMBER 5 AND SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
I have been back from a sabbatical rest for a couple of weeks. I have to say, the rest has been good for me. I hear the Lord with more confidence when I am rested.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH
The first Tuesday night back September 5, I felt that the Holy Spirit was telling us to pray against a spirit of slumber across the American church. You know that everyone isn’t asleep but as a whole, there is a whole lot of sleeping going on. We also prayed over the hurricane and used the truth from the Book of Mark of “speaking to the mountain”. We spoke to the hurricane that was set to decimate Florida. We didn’t get all that we wanted but I believe that the prayer of God’s people made a difference in what could have happened. Nevertheless, we will continue speaking to things because Jesus tells us to. If you need encouragement and boldness pray with the September 5th prayer meeting.
TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 12
This last Tuesday night, the Lord began to speak to me about praying about Mark 16. These signs shall follow them that believe. I look around and see us and then look at the scripture and there seems to be a disconnect. Don’t misunderstand, I know there are things that are happening but not to the degree we saw with Jesus. We should be seeing greater works than Jesus because he went to the Father and sent the powerful Holy Spirit to help us. Jesus said that is what would happen.
We also spent time on each of the things we are told in the scripture should be occurring on a regular basis.
1. Cast out demons (We spent time praying over ENCOUNTER that is coming for this next weekend)
Did you know that over a third of Jesus’ ministry was casting out demons? I would say that if we are going to minister like Jesus, we need this in our tool box. I certainly don’t look for demonic activity, but it has a way of finding me when people are troubled by darkness. I want to know I have the ability to help someone get free.
Demons are entities that have a will and they are opportunist who want to impose that will on the people that Jesus died for. I have had many public experiences where people that are distressed by the unseen spirits, will react in strange manners.
I went to the state fair one year and was in line with my family to give our tickets to someone working the gate and she would not take my ticket. She took my family’s tickets and then she zoned out. I had to get in a different line. As soon as I moved she took the next person’s ticket! I have had people not wait on me at an amusement park but would wait on others around the kiosk. It may sound strange, but the anointing will drive those spirits to the surface. They may cry out or zone out or seize out. This happened to Jesus everywhere He ministered. You can read about it in the gospels. You can also read about this happening to Paul and others in the Book of Acts…it’s a great read!!
2. Speak with new tongues
Anyone who feels they don’t know how to pray needs to ask God about being baptized in the power of the Holy Spirit and let Him give you a new prayer language! I’m glad I don’t have to know what to pray all the time. I miss a lot in my humanity, but the Holy Spirit doesn’t miss a thing! He is my best friend and prayer partner. You can see where this first happened in Acts 2:1-3.
3. Take up serpents (don’t go looking for snakes to prove something, this is just in case you get accosted by one)
When you live in Texas, rattlesnakes and copperheads are in abundance. Especially in the escarpment where we are. If fact, there is a home grown book written in our city that says we have these weird genetic extra-large rattlers that are native to this area only.
One morning I was bopping through my garden in my front yard to get to the house to turn on the water for my flowers. There are some sandstone looking flat walking stones and I was kind of stepping on them. I was in flip flops and shorts. I stepped on one stone and brushed my foot lightly across the next one, turned on the hose and started back the way I came. As I brushed my foot over the stone (for the second time) I saw it as I touched it…it was an over 2 foot copperhead rolled up flat on the stone! I believe an angel must have had his foot on him. He didn’t even move. The scary thing is that I had brushed him twice. Copperheads are pretty aggressive. I’m glad the Lord took of my cause!!! I would rather He step on the thing than me getting bit and having to shake off the snake like the Apostle Paul did in the Book of Acts!!! We did get animal control to come get him out of the hole by my house he ran into! Didn’t want to meet him unexpectedly again.
4. If you drink deadly thing it will not harm you.
There are also parts of the world where poison is a homicide of choice. This was true for early Christians. Have you ever noticed in the Bible and in History, the rulers had cup bearers? There was a reason for that. The cup bearers got to taste the drink before the king. Yes, they got to take one for the team. If it was poison, they would die, but the king would be saved.
There are stories of Christians being poisoned and not dying, much to the dismay of their enemies. These are good scriptures to pray over our food supply as well.
I hope you will pray with me on the September 12 date to be activated in power ministry and gain boldness.
ON ANOTHER NOTE:
Trinity School of Supernatural Ministry is in full swing. This is our first year. Right now I’m teaching New Testament Survey with Christ Wesley our Young Adult Pastor. The first three weeks I am on the Survey of the Book of Mark. It’s rich!
So glad you are hanging with me. If you ever want to pray “live” on a Tuesday night with me, you can go to Trinitychurch.org at 7 pm. You can even send in your request on that website and I’ll pray with as many as I can at the end of prayer time!
Remember:
Men ought always to pray and not give up!
Blessings,
lisa
September 5 Prayer
September 12 Prayer
Here’s the ENCOUNTER advertisement Trae created for us, beautiful.
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